god, you must be one hell of a teacher to learn from! keep these up! It's too bad there are people out there who have chosen not to learn anything, really those people are nothing more then moving corpses.

John, I have to say you have the best site if you want to learn about animation.I save every single pic from this blog to my hard drive for resources.It's the only site about animation that I actually find useful.I gratefully bow down to you.Like many people know better I want to see real cartoons backon tv

I talked to my little niece yesterday and she didn't even knewbugs bunny or tom & jerrt,...Wich kinda blew me away to realise that she will grow up watching flat, manga styled crap and no real cartoons cause they just don't show them anymore over here

Ps: What are your thoughts on Al Hirschfield.Do you like his style of drawing?

I ask because it seems like what you are teaching on here is extremely fundamental, what students should learn as soon as they start learning, and I've never heard of composition, construction, color theory before you started teaching it.

my art teacher hated me so I never really recieved any directions. She was also more into her "high quality" artists giving them exclusive attention while ignoring the rest of us. According to her she was a famous artist, however everything I've seen of hers looked more like wallpaper you could buy from Kmart in the home improvement department.

Great post. This explains why sometimes my drawings get worse the more I render them. Too much texture homogenizes the composition.

The institution of school sucks--ESPECIALLY in art. I've had 3 art courses in my college career thus far, and all but one was a waste of time. The exception of that one class, was that the teacher had actual skill & talent and he didn't bullshit us with his critiques.

Jorge, you probably know how to play the school game, so it's a bit of a moral dilemma isn't it? :)